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I'm starting a thread on the Greatest (the Top or the Best) anime songs of all time. Every week I'm inducting ten songs into the canon of the greatest anime songs of all time by posting its details, video and lyrics. The result would be what you call the Anime Songs Hall of Fame, basically the cream of the crop in anime songs. Of course, not any anime song will do, that's why I'm looking at anime sites polls and awards for basis and not merely my own personal taste. Also, your suggestions would be much appreciated.

CRITERIA:

Spoiler:

As suggested by Varaxis, I'm listing the standards of what songs may be considered in the Hall of Fame.

- songs should be from a television anime, anime film, original video anime (OVA), or web anime. (Songs from 18+ anime are not eligible.)
- at the latest, songs should be on an anime shown during the previous year, but feel free to suggest recent songs.
- Image/character songs are not included, songs should be incorporated in the anime. Likewise, songs from video games or live-action series/movies (even if tied-up with an anime) are not included. So basically only opening, ending and insert songs are allowed.
- A huge factor is the inclusion of a song in a Anime Song Countdown based on critical and popular consensus. A partial list of such countdowns are listed in this post.
- A song's placing in the Oricon Music Chart is also valuable. My main source of such information is at jpopstop.com & wikipedia.
- I visit the other threads in AnimeSuki Forum for songs to consider, particularly the "Favourite Opening/Ending" thread.
- I usually visit Gendou.com to find out the song's rating, especially if it is relatively new. Though not a dealbreaker, a rating of 8.500 or higher will impress.
- multiple recommendations of the same song by different posters is highly regarded.
- the end goal is to have at least 2000 songs inducted (so one has to keep in mind if the song would be considered one of the best 2000 anime songs released). From there, I will post a Top 1000 Anime Songs of All Time list. I'm compiling and ranking the songs offline as the list grows.

1,000 Best Selling Anime/Sentai/Game Singles of the Decade (2000-2010) [It excludes tie-up artists for an anime, I don't know what that means but it in effect excludes hits from FMA, Naruto, Detective Conan, Bleach and others]:

For Anisons which includes tie-up artists you can view CDTV's Top 20 Anime Songs Sales (from 2000-2007), which can be viewed as the Top 20 for the decade save for Ponyo's ED's 346,217 copies sold (in 2008) which would make it the 7th Anison Sales of the decade.

- please feel free to post in the thread any anime song countdown (or a link thereto) that would be helpful in this endeavor.

Nice idea. You certainly listed ten of the most popular opening/ending songs, personal opinions apart none can argue about that.

You asked for suggestions, and i do have some, however these are so popular that i think you would have put in the thread anyway, however just to be sure:

Lum no love Song - Uruseiyatsura
Ai wo Torimodose - Hokuto no Ken
Doraemon no Uta - Doraemon
Blue Water - Fushigi no Umi no Nadia
Mad Machine - Bubblegum Crisis (this is probably the only case i know where the song is more famous than the series itself)

I haven't seen any movie in your list, so i'm not sure if they are allowed however there are a few songs that are very very popular

We Were Lovers - OP theme from Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sore Feet Song - OP theme from Mushishi
It's Gonna Rain - Second season ED theme from Rurouni Kenshin
Yakusoku wa Iranai - OP theme from The Vision of Escaflowne
Dango Daikazoku - First season ED theme from Clannad

I'll try to offer some others another time, but these are a few OPs and EDs that really stick out in my mind as being fantastic.

Thanks a lot guys! actually I have a list of songs beforehand that I will post on Saturday or Sunday and the amazing thing is that I have at least one song from your recommendations (Lum no Love, Ai wo Torimodose, Sori Ga Ai Deshou, Yakusoku wa Iranai and Tonari no Totoro) included for week 2. It goes to show how classic and timeless these songs are. Even Triangular is considered an instant classic, debuting just last year. Your other recommendations are very familiar and I'm sure I'll induct them in the coming weeks. A you might guess this is more of a vanity project for me since I'm fairly new in anime music appreciation sparked by the recent anime songs boom in Japan thanks to the Haruhi, Gundam and Macross anime singles. I'm doing this for those who share my new passion for great songs accompanying Japanese animation, a forum to watch, listen and probably sing along to the songs we love. Hopefully, when I'm done posting a thousand songs (probably a couple of years from now), I'll post a ranked list of the greatest anime songs based on your recommendations and other lists and polls. Again, thank you for your time and contributions.

Mazinger Z is definitely one of the greatest songs ever, when I heard Aniki sing it live, I could feel the mecha spirit in his powerful voice. Also Minmay's Ai Oboeteimasuka, the song that made me cry watching an anime for the first time, its one of the most beautiful songs ever.

strange for some reason when I enter this topic youtube plays the vids with no sound and from that point on as well if I go to youtube.com to watch something. But then after rebooting firefox it works again right until I enter this topic again o.o;

strange for some reason when I enter this topic youtube plays the vids with no sound and from that point on as well if I go to youtube.com to watch something. But then after rebooting firefox it works again right until I enter this topic again o.o;

Must be some bug in the forums with janfive's embedded players.

I don't have any problem like that (I'm on Opera), but it does annoys very much every time I enter a thread and there are tons of youtube screens up with no spoiler tag or anything.

I'm also using Firefox (version 3.0.7) and the videos play with sound. But if -KarumA- can't play the videos without sound then probably others can't too. If anyone can help me remedy the situation, like do I need spoiler tags for the sound to work along with the video? (since this is my first time embedding youtube videos using the BB Code tags) then I will make the necessary corrections the next time I post. I hope I won't have to drastically change my current format since in my opinion it's more convenient for those who view this thread to watch the videos in the same tab.
Also after reading Zaseka's recommendations, I am also at a quandary whether to include songs which were already famous when the anime aired. Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" was a hit in 1983 and used in the Speed Grapher in 2005. I'm inclined to believe that people familiar with the song would recognize it as an 80's gem infamously banned by MTV due to the band's risque music video rather than as an anime song.

Thank you guys for your recommendations! Here are my inductions into the Hall of Fame for Week 2:

There have been a few series that step it up as far as the OPs and EDs go. FMA and Bleach come to mind with a bunch of theirs. I also really liked the OP to S.E. Lain (which has an awesome slide guitar riff in the full version) and the ED of Chrono Crusade.

I know there are a bunch of others I'm leaving out. Some stuff for Inuyasha was very good and I personally liked the ED to Midori no Hibi. The production makes the girls voice sound so soft and pleasing to listen to.

But the top marks have to go to the inevitable. Cowboy Bebop wins it for OP and especially for ED. What makes it so good is that the music isn't just good by OP/ED standards. It stands up to any music you can throw at it. There's no OP like Tank!, it has a solid and catchy bass line, and a great sax solo. And maybe I'm biased because I'm a bassist but The Real Folk Blues has one of the best bass performances I've ever heard. And it's played on a bass instead of a quantized keyboard bass-synth like so many OPs and EDs have.

Well, this thread certainly seems to have garnered quite a bit of interest. I'm wondering if people are interested in running a sort of "Song of the Week" event as a way to get people hooked on anime music. At this point, I'd be more than willing to help run it if there is sufficient interest in such a project.

So if this sounds enticing, let me know and maybe we can work some sort of system to run this event. I've already got a few thoughts in mind, but I'd like to make sure that the interest level is sufficiently high before I commit my time into getting this to work.

Well, this thread certainly seems to have garnered quite a bit of interest. I'm wondering if people are interested in running a sort of "Song of the Week" event as a way to get people hooked on anime music. At this point, I'd be more than willing to help run it if there is sufficient interest in such a project.

So if this sounds enticing, let me know and maybe we can work some sort of system to run this event. I've already got a few thoughts in mind, but I'd like to make sure that the interest level is sufficiently high before I commit my time into getting this to work.

I'm down for this. Maybe we can have a few tiers to it as well, such as Song of the Month picked from that month's Songs of the Week and eventually maybe a Song of the Year too. Just a thought I had.